Phish:Time Turns Elastic Lyrics

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In and out of focusTime turns elastic

And when I'd stayed too longI went outside and staredArms outstretched and longMoved straight across the sky

If I could wrap my arms around this globeHands, touch the green and brownI'd sink into the cool, cool ground

Seen all, seen all, seen all summerSeen all, seen all, seen all spring

But I'm a submarineAnd the submarine sinks belowThe ground

Now that the leaves have turned to goldThe moments all glowFrozen and free from time

And out here on my ownI watch it ebb and flow

Here, with the fire burning lowIn the honey mist that breathesCrooked maple fingers trembling all aroundI feel the winds that blow

Out here between the dark and lightThe summer's gone, and the reeds bow downAs the colors changeAll along the water line

And when it's time the landslide will free what froze insideWhile all around the rocks collideYou finally see the linesThat point toward the light that never dies

Melody, shelter in the darkness Take hold of me now Memory, trapped in a corner Dark fingers are long

But all around streaming downRays of blue light, calling out

These silver sounds are raining down on meHere on the wheel, the rhythm’s turning all aroundUp above the darkened sky is bleedingI feel the world turning upside down

These are the reasons that we lay down on the groundDrawn through a funnel, all the colors run together Turning brown

Wait for the waves to come and carry me awayDown on the ground the sounds of voices in the echoes seem to say

And as the carousel circles unceasinglyWatch while the ripples decay in this rolling timeAnd cascading, the winds set the wheels in motionAnd it’s turning in the mist around meRolling and turning into the mist around me

Kissed by the water and held in your mother’s armsGreen where you tumble and roll in these fieldsThe shapes of the bodies that shift in the sun While the blossoms all scream and it sleeps around me The earth in these memories heals around me

In and out of focusTime turns elastic

Touches these woods and these waters all paved with goldGleaming in daylight the voices ring onThey pull while the pointing lay down in the storm And this life is bending and swelling around me

Rolling and turning into the mist around meThe winds all rising in the west around meAnd the carousel turns into breath around me